I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.

Sure I hear what people say. But the only opinions I care about are from the fans.

I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.

There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.

My problems were not what ended Creed.